PSGE EIGHT
rEPFOTCD WATL TRTBTjyK, MEDTOTCD, OTtEftOy, TUESDAY, JTTLY. 19. 1933.
BY PHOEBE ATWOOD TAYLOR
Tho Story So Far: Ami Uauo, Cape
Cod detective, is tntieslioatino thf
murder of Marina Lome, whois hus
band's pojt oflics mural hat enraged
Quanomet. site wot Kmea oy a ten
handed blow from the knife of tier
sister Pam Frye. interested parlies
are: Tim Carr. once marrted to Ma
rina,- Roddv Strutt, whose alibuino
plane crash loot deliberate; Peony
Boone, an artist; Jennings, an Irate
plumber; and persons unlenoum who
burned down tnt trye-t oarn, ae-
ttroyed Jack Lome's mural sketches
and defaced the mural itself. Ilmmi
is a 550,000 lump o) amoergru oe
lonaino to Pam. Then Koddy is killed.
Chapter 44
A Neat Job
TWO houri later, in the enor
mous living room at the Strutt
house, Asey puffed on his pipe and
listened wearily to the argument
on between Dr. Cummings and
Carveth on the subject of Roddy's
death.
"Mr. Strutt" Cummings dropped
his angry bellow and spoke in a
voice so tautly controlled that it
startled even Asey, "I know that
Roddy was your favorite nephew,
and I know you've been upset dur
ing the last day or so, and I know
you've suffered a tremendous blow
tonight. But Roddy didn't kill
himself. He was murdered."
"Roddy was driven to suicidel '
Carveth said.
"Look," Cummings' voice soared
again, "I've tried to explain that I
know how you feel, but I know the
facta In the case. That's my job
I've spent the last couple of hours
just finding out facts. Roddy was
murdered.
"The boy was driven to suicide,"
Carveth said with stubborn per
sistence. "Everyone knows that
suicides always go into a garage,
shut the door and start a car
"But they don't lock the garage
doors on the outside!" Cummings
said. "With a padlock!"
"Everyone knows it," Strutt
went on, "and that's just what hap
pened here. Roddy was so intimi
dated and so overwrought by these
threats why, he went out of his
mind! He wasn't responsible for
what he did."
"Carbon monoxide," Cummings
said, "Is a favorite with suicides.
But Roddy was killed. He went in
to the garage, and someone either
someone with him or someone
waiting for him hit him on the
base of the skull, hard enough to
stun him. Then they moved him so
that his head rested under the ex
haust of his roadster, and they
started the roadster, and then they
went out, snapping the padlock
after them. Certainly you don't
think that Roddy locked that pad
lock, and then crawled back
through a crack!"
"What do you think?" Carveth
" appealed to Asey.
"I don't think," Asey said, "that
1 could ever prove it was suicide."
"Oh, I don t know what to do!"
Carveth seemed to crumple back
into his chair. "1 don't know what
to do, or what to think!"
Dr. Cummings, too thoroughly
annoyed with Strutt to stop and be
sympathetic, hammered away at
his point
"Sheer reason," he said, "should
convince you "
Asey motioned for him to be
silent This was no time to attempt
to reach any possible better judg
ment Carveth might possess.
"I wonder, Mr. Strutt" he said,
embarking on his tentative plan,
"about the newspaper angle. We
kept this quiet up to ndw, Dut be
fore long the reporters'll come.
There's a lot In town, an' you'll
have to see 'em, an' talk with
'em How about lettin' Elliott an'
me write some sort of statement
for you?"
"Oh, would you?" Carveth asked
eagerly.
Stain On The Escutcheon
THE doctor raised hli eyebrows
and looked at Asey. That man
could get more places with a little
honey and molasses!
"But you got to consider," Asey
went on, "the papers' angle, an'
the position you an' your family
hold. I wonder if, on the whole, it
mightn't be wise to call it mur
der? I don't want to go against
your wishes, but if we admit this
Is suicide, wouldn't it sort of be a
a "
"Blemish," the doctor suggested.
"Blemish. A stain on the family
escutcheon."
"Just so. Now, you knew that
your nephew was Involved In the
Marina Lorne business, didn't you,
Mr. Strutt?"
Carveth grudging admitted that
he had guessed it.
"An' if we say that he committed
suicide, then well, folks'll start
talkin' an' sayin' that Roddy prob
ably had reason to kill himself.
People are always awful willin' to
believe the unpleasantest things
they can about anyone who kills
himself. They want a reason, an'
I'm afraid that Marina's murder
might turn out to be it. But if we
say Roddy was murdered, people
will be sorry. P'raps sorry enough
lo forget some of the uh un
pleasant incidents, an' all."
Carveth thought for a moment.
"By George." he said. "1 never
thought of that! I think you're
right Vou and Elliott fix up some
thingperhaps this will be the
way to get Jennings. Ves. Ves, in
deed." "Now why," Cummings asked
as he and Asey walked down the
hall together a few minutes later,
"why aid you twist him over to
our way of thinking, lust to let him
go off on a tangent about Jennings?
He'll talk with Hanson, and you
can't tell what will happen. You're
sure Jennings didn't kill him.
aren't you?"
Asey nodded. "But 1 don't want
two conflictin' stories on thi," he
said, "and 1 do want Hanson an'
Carveth to provide a distractin
element Anyone would do, but
Jennings is handiest"
"In other words, you want the
right hand In action, while the left
brings forth rabbits. 1 see. Asey,
are you so sure about Jennings?
He certainly menaced magnificent
ly last night if you can believe
Carveth. And biffing Roddy over
the head has a touch of Jennings
about it"
"It's neat," Asey said. "The
whole thing is neat so much neater
than I'd imagined at first that it
makes my spine curL"
"Can vou alibi Jennings?" the
doctor asked, as he paused to pick
up his black bag trom tne nan ta
ble. "I can.'' Asey said. "I done some
phonin' an' checkin' while you was
busy cut in the garage. Jennings is
alibied by time, an' the Methodist
minister. You see, noddy d disap
peared just a little while before
Elliott an' 1 come here, that was
around seven-thirty this evenin
or maybe a bit after. At just about
that same time, tne minister was
.... TBnninrt, aknul 1 rtfl
yards from the Pochet hospital At a
quarter to eight, Lome claims tnat
Jennings was spankin' him So you
see, Jennings didn't have time to
come here. The nurses can prove
he was in his room at the hospital
about fifteen minutes before the
minister picked him up. They got
him on a chart There you are."
A Red Herring
'1DUT where will Jennings be,
D when Carveth and Hanson get
going?"
"He's safe. I'll get him out, tl
they get him In too deep. 1 want a
red herrin' here, an' it won't harm
him to be it He can take it. An' 1
hope he'll keep everyone busy"
While you sneaK on ana terret
out the murderers? Cummings
asked.
"The murderer, Asey corrected.
"Just one."
"Forgotten Marina?"
"NoDe." Asev said. "Oh. I know
what you're goin' to say. Doc. The
first murder was a stabbin' an' this
is a carbon monoxide by force, an
they don't seem alike. But they're
alike in one thing. The knife they
used was Pam's, an' the idea here,
I think, is for us to land on Jen
nings." Cummings set his bag down.
"Then you think that Roddy was
being menaced, but not by Jen
nings?" he asked.
"I thought," Asey admitted, "all
this menacin' was a yarn, at first
Now 1 wonder if perhaps Roddy
wasn t bein threatened all right
An' of course when Jennings
turned up last night, naturally the
Strutls thought that he was the
menacer. Only he wasn't."
The doctor sighed. "It gives you
an unknown menacer to start with,
I suppose, but I don't feel that's
much of a foundation. How would
anyone knoto that Jennings was
the basher who went after you and
the rest?"
They wouldn't have to know,
Asey said, "about that business in
the woods, or any specific bashin'.
Jennings has a reputation for vio
lence. Everyone Knows what he
thinks an' how he feels about Rod
dy. An' they know he's mad at
the mural. He's a nice, likely per
son to pick out, just as Pam was
Are you ready? Then we'd better
get goin'."
Elliott met them as they walked
down to the garage where the doc
tor's car was parked.
"Hanson's come and gone," he
said, "and he left two messages
for Asey. That he'd done all the
checking, and It was okay. And
what you wanted is on its way to
you from Boston. Look, why did
you check on me? Don't look so
guileless, Hanson made a break!"
"The nicest people," Asey said,
"do the strangest things. Elliott,
you got to compose a statement for
the press an' then will you hang
around here? Carveth's in a state,
an' if you're helpful enough, you
might get a new school. Besides,
someone ought to be here who can
make decisions."
The Congressman took copious
notes on the backs of envelopes
"There," he said. "Wherc'll you
be?"
"Octagon House," Asey said
"Got anything, Lane?" he askeo
the officer who came over to them
"No prints on the Dadlock. the
car keys, the wheel, door, or any
thing, hverythma s clean, wioec.
off. He got hit with that piece ol
wood you thought, but that s clean
too. And the padlock was not
forced. Asey, 1 don't get this ai
all!"
tCtvtitl. 1938. fM4 ittvted Tlat
Monday: Asey reproaches hlmselt.
Foree Acquitted
Of Burning Plant
DALLAS, Ore., July 19. (V)
Lisle Foree, former president of the
Salem Teamster's union, was found
Siot guilty of arson early this after
noon when he appeared before Cir
cuit Judge Arlle O. Walker. Foree,
who was tried without a Jury last
week, was charged with arson In
connection with the burning of Mie
West Salem bos factory last Novein-
Sudden Auto Stop
Cracks Lady's Hip
ALBANY, July 19 p Mrs. And
rew Han-sen, 83, of Eugene, auffered
a broken hip last night when th?
automobile operated by her son-in-law,
Leonard L. Good of Eugene
topped suddenly to avoid a collision
with bicycle. Ths aged pswener
fell forward to the floor of the cr.r.
Eagerness For Job
Costs Seeker $23
PORTLAND. July 10. &) Wal
ter Jarmer's eagerness for woik made
him gullible Sunday. A stranger
asked him If he wanted a truck driv
ing job and took 50 fnrm him to
get him "bonded" and equipped with
a chauffer's license. The man ftava
him a note to a trucking firm auth
orizing the placing of Jsrmer on the
payroll, and signed "All McCllnnls."
The drayase company had never
heard of "McOlnnls" and had no Job.
Trooper Succumbs
To Bullet Wound
PORTLAND. July 19. ,yr Injuries
he Buffered in November when an
Infuriated Terrebonne. Ore , chicken
rancher shot him at close rane, yi
terday took the lire of State Patrol
man Ray Pyle.
Pyle and another state policeman
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Gibraltar's Monkeys
Strange as it seems, mighty Gib
raltar, Mediterranean fortress noted
for Its Impregnability, was saved for
England In 1930 by 30 Barbary ape?
Imported from Africa.
Involved In the superstitious be
liefs of Spanish natives at Gibraltar,
England's hold on the rock wa& ne
lleved dependent on whether or not
the Barbary apes could live there
under British rule. When the last
ape died, natives whispered, Eng
land's flag would no longer wave over
the fortress.
In 1930, the monkey popxtlatlon
of Gibraltar had dropped off until
there were but two left a pair ol
old females. Natives passed the word
that the British hold was weaken
ing.
Fearing possible revolution or other
trouble with the Spanish natives,
military strategists stationed at Gib
raltar saw the necessity of taking
steps to replenish the stock of Bar
bary apes.
Consequently Captain D. A. Smith
was commissioned to bring new ones
from Africa to quiet the superstitious
natives. He captured 30, ferried them
across the strait and turned thum
loose to clamber over the tower.ng
rock mountain. Today, strange as It
seems, It Is a crime to tease these
peace -preserving monkeys of Gibral
tar and high treason to kill one!
For 234 years England has held this
strategic fortress which stands guard
over the entrance to the Mediterran
ean, yet oddly enough Gibraltar was
not taken by England for England
In 1704, but for Archduke Charles
of Austria, pretender to the Austrian
throne 1
During the War of the Spanish
Succession, a British squadron was.
sent to the Mediterranean under Sir
George Rooke who, after cruising
about, decided to attack Gibraltar.
Although the rock was fortified with
100 guns, Sir George took it in three
days, In the Interests of Archduke
Charles.
However, Charles was defeated in
his attempt to gain Austria's throne,
so Sir George, on his own responsi
bility, caused the British flag to o
raised over the fortress and took
possession In the name of Queen
Anne.
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Cameroonsl
went to the ranch of Gust Olson
and Andro Dalsgard on a tip Olson
had killed Dalsgard.
After shooting Pyle, Olson killud
news breaks from 1881 to 1938 pro
vide a unusual wall covering In a
hotel here. Because It would be Im
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himself. Dalsgnrd's body was dlflcov-the owner Is negotiating for their
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ROCK ISLAND,. Ill (UP) Front
pages of newspapers showing big
Horseshoe Strikes.
WORCESTER. Mass. -UP)
Proctor R. Currier is convinced that
horseshoes don't bring him luck.
While walking past a horseshoe pitch
ing court. Currier was hit on the
head by a wildly-tossed shot.
LOS ANGELES (UP) District At
torney Buron Fltts reports that this
city is freer from payment of trib
ute to racketeers than any large
community in the country.
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